Since most people would click on this site and go "What is a
Plaid Faction?" I figured I needed to include this section to fill in those gaps
for anyone interested in actually reading through this stuff. So without
further ado...

Why is this site here?

Eh... It's mostly for selfish, cathartic
reasons. On the afternoon of December 3, 2006, I was sitting in a movie
theater watching the movie "The Prestige" and it dawned on me all of the sudden
that this date was the 15th anniversary of the first Plaid Faction gig. It
kind of hit me like a ton of bricks. I thought things like, "Holy crap, am
I really that old?!" and "I gotta call the guys or something!" So after
the movie I went home and tried to contact someone from the band and I couldn't
get a hold of anyone at all. It was a bummer. We had all lost touch
with each other.

Then I started reminiscing about the days of
old and the great Plaid Faction stories. Lots of good times were had.
Then I realized that these memories were slowly slipping away. Even though
we have all moved on and hopefully all have rich, fulfilling lives now, the
several years
spent in Plaid Faction were for better or worse, a good piece of history.
A piece of history that I (and hopefully others) don't want to lose
due to failing memories and spring cleanings. So at that point I decided to spend some
time putting together a site for Plaid Faction.

At the point of writing this none of the
other members or old fans know this is going on. I hope that as they
discover the site and the reasoning for putting it up that they will in turn
start digging through their closets and memories for old Plaid Faction stuff and
get it to me one way or another so it can ultimately be added to this museum of
sorts. So to answer the question...

This website was created as an
online repository for all things Plaid Faction. I thought it would be a good idea to get that stuff
converted to digital media and centrally locate it on the web so that the few
folks that might be interested in seeing it could get to it any time they
wanted. On to the next main question...

What is a Plaid Faction?

Plaid Faction was a Dallas-based
band that played in Texas and surrounding states during the 1990's.
Pinpointing when the group was formed will differ depending on who you talk to
:) I feel like the
group was originally formed by J.C. Francis and myself (Jarrett Hinds) circa
1990 (see stories for more info) and that we pulled
the rest of the group together. The band played together for the better
part of the 1990's and had some decent success and wrote some good tunes (if we
do say so ourselves)

I estimate that Plaid Faction had roughly 750
gigs as a band and recorded at least 30 songs on 4-5 tapes/CDs. The band
had countless other tunes written that never made it to a recording
unfortunately. Hopefully as we dig through our collective closets more and
more of these songs will be unearthed. Plaid Faction gigged extensively in
Dallas as well as other Texas cities such as Ft. Worth, Denton, Lewisville,
Waco, Tyler, Palestine, Witchita Falls, Houston, Austin, Waxahachie, Maypearl,
and even into Oklahoma to Norman and Oklahoma City. Well, we didn't
actually make it to the stage in OKC, but that's a tale for the stories section
:)

Plaid Faction had a pretty wide base of music
influences including in somewhat chronological order: Living Colour, Faith
No More, Led Zepplin, Lenny Kravitz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Rage
Against The Machine, etc. As you will probably notice while listening to
the songs on the site, the band's overall sound got harder and harder as the
years went on. I always said as we got screwed over more and more by the
music industry that our music reflected that anger culminating with some pretty
intense musically ideas on the band's only CD release.

So now I know WTF Plaid Faction
was, where did you get that crazy name?

The answer to that is a long one and it's
probably better suited for the stories section.